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Author Name: Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928. He did his National Service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951 where he was a social worker, and a teacher in Natal. From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.

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The Midden

-by Tom Sharpe

Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. He is the not-very acute scion of a successful family - that is, until Timo... Read More

Wilt in Nowhere

-by Tom Sharpe

Ancestral Vices

-by Tom Sharpe

This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyer... Read More

Vintage Stuff

-by Tom Sharpe

Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly... Read More

The Wilt Alternative

-by Tom Sharpe

Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he ... Read More

Grantchester Grind

-by Tom Sharpe

Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physi... Read More

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Lucy Foley

A little about me: I always knew I wanted to work with books somehow, so I studied English at university before working in a bookshop, a literary ag Read More...

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AINTHAAM PIRAI - ADUTHTHA ILAKKU

by: RAJESH KUMAR

Aindham Pirai We are all aware that the 'Moondram Pirai' in Tamil or the third day of moon phase post the new moon day is very special and considered lucky and auspicious in few faiths. This Novel gives importance to the Fifth day of moon phase due to the multiple tragedies happening on the day. Though there are a bunch of characters in this novel, the 'Fifth Day Moon' is considered as the Read More...

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